Yep. I’ve seen it time and again in local elections. The teacher’s union makes it fairly obvious who they want on a school board. Look for multiple names on signs. They cross file meaning that 15% to 20% of the registered voters in the precinct might turn out on a lovely May day in an odd year election. A good share of those will be union hacks and the like, so come November, guess which choices there will be on the ballot?
I hate that almost as much as the “crucially important issue on the ballot in an off-year primary election in a county with a 5:1 Democrat registration advantage, and few Republicans even running on the ballot”.
Carnegie Library raised my property tax a couple of years ago with that one!